Marcus Tullius Cicero Nature Quotations

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.